Aleksandr G. Lukashenko

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News about Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Dec. 28, 2014

Pres Aleksandr G Lukashenko of Belarus offers no explanation for dismissal of Prime Min Mikhail Myasnikovich, along with head of country's central bank; reorganization seems to suggest significant challenges facing country due to its heavy reliance on Russia at time when Russia is at odds with West. MORE

Sep. 25, 2012

Supporters of Belarussian Pres Aleksandr G Lukashenko win every seat in Parliament in election that is widely seen as rigged. MORE

Sep. 24, 2012

Belarus holds parliamentary elections and international observers note improvements in the country's election law; European Union, having shifted their emphasis to election law and away from political prisoners, will review the travel ban imposed on President Aleksandr G Lukashenko in 2010. MORE

Aug. 2, 2012

Belarus Pres Aleksandr G Lukashenko has reacted sharply to a security breach in which Swedish pilots airdropped teddy bears bearing anti-authoritarian signs on Minsk, firing two generals and issuing a warning to his minister of defense. MORE

Jul. 26, 2012

Britain says it will not waive a visa restriction for Belarus’s autocratic president, Aleksandr G Lukashenko, and others accused of human rights abuses, to attend the 2012 Summer Olympics. MORE

Jul. 17, 2012

Op-Ed article by journalist Andrej Dynko contends that Belarus's Pres Aleksandr G Lukashenko maintains his 17-year-old dictatorial regime by imprisoning thousands of opposition activists and leaders under extremely harsh conditions; notes that Lukashenko also draws power from a privileged relationship with Russia, which provides significant economic support to Belarus. MORE

Jul. 4, 2012

Andrzej Poczobut, a Polish journalist based in western Belarus, is indicted on libel charges after alleging that Pres Aleksandr G Lukashenko influenced a court decision to execute two men convicted of an April 2011 bombing of a Minsk subway station. MORE

Apr. 15, 2012

Belarus grants early release to one of its most prominent political prisoners, Andrei Sannikov, in a move that might be intended to ease its strained relationship with the European Union; Sannikov was convicted of organizing mass unrest and given a five-year sentence in May 2011, during the harshest crackdown of Pres Aleksandr G Lukashenko's rule. MORE

Mar. 16, 2012

Government of Belarus is apparently barring opponents of Pres Aleksandr G Lukashenko, which includes several journalists, opposition political figures and human rights workers, from leaving the former Soviet republic. MORE

July 26, 2012, Thursday

Minsk, Belarus LATE last month Andrzej Poczobut, a journalist in Belarus, was indicted on a charge of libel against the country's president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, after publishing a series of articles that questioned the execution of two men...